From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_REJECT, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from goliath.dnshome.org (c-24-98-65-184.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.65.184]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71FCAC387; Sat, 25 May 2002 11:31:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from acm.org (unknown [192.168.1.165]) by goliath.dnshome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6357C12B51F; Sat, 25 May 2002 12:31:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CEFBC4C.5060009@acm.org> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 12:31:08 -0400 From: "Chad M. Huneycutt" Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020520 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org, gentoo-newbie@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] Reply-To Munging Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: chadh@cc.gatech.edu List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: e0ebffc3-4740-4799-b2fb-68a121de2e7f X-Archives-Hash: 2907087d3bd10b0e5b0255a046d77ce8 It looks like the decision on whether or not to stop reply-to munging has fallen to me. After a little debate, I have decided to leave the mailing lists as they are. First, I would ask that everyone read the excellent articles at the following URLs: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml They pretty well cover the pros & cons of reply-to munging. I find the latter article much more compelling, but maybe that is b/c I like the system how it is already. I would like to add one more point. I personally do not use the "group reply" function on MUA's unless I really need to. I don't want to even risk getting into the habit of hitting that and accidentally mass-mailing a personal mail. You might notice that this is very similar to an argument made in the first article above. My response is that it is very unlikely that I will be mailing information of a personal nature in response to a mailing list posting. For those that want people to use a different address than their From: address, I suggest you put it in your signature. Feel free to respond to this, and if I feel that an overwhelming number of you really would prefer to do away with Reply-to munging, then I will do it. One other thing that I will consider. If a particular mailing list feels that reply-to munging is not necessarily, we could remove it just for that group. Chad Huneycutt (chadh@gentoo.org)